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Foreign Delegates Arrive for 30th ECO Meeting in IslamabadPakistan
Foreign ministers and senior officials are arriving in Islamabad for the two-day 30th ECO Council of Ministers meeting, as Pakistan assumes the organisation’s chairmanship for 2026-27.
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Foreign ministers and senior officials from regional countries and international organisations continued to arrive in Islamabad on Sunday for the 30th meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Council of Ministers, which begins today.
Pakistan is hosting the two-day meeting on November 15 and 16 and assumes the organisation’s chairmanship for 2026-27 under the theme “Reviving Regionalism for a Resilient ECO”, according to the Foreign Office.
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Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Musa Kulaklikaya, who is leading his country’s delegation, arrived in Islamabad on Sunday and was received by Foreign Office officials at Islamabad International Airport, the Foreign Office said.
Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Deputy Secretary General Ahmad Saidmurodzoda have also reached the federal capital for the meeting.
Other visiting dignitaries include Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Issagaliyev, who is leading his country’s delegation. The Foreign Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Tahsin Ertugruloglu, arrived in Islamabad on Saturday.
The two-day ministerial meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and attended by foreign ministers and heads of delegations from the ECO’s member states, along with representatives of the organisation’s secretariat and subsidiary bodies.
A meeting of senior officials from the member states was held ahead of the ministerial session to review the organisation’s programmes and activities and finalise documents for consideration by the foreign ministers, according to the Foreign Office’s curtain raiser issued on Saturday.
The ECO was founded in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Türkiye, and was expanded in 1992 to include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The organisation works on economic cooperation among its members, including trade, transport, energy and communications.
The Council of Ministers is the ECO’s main decision-making body, bringing together the foreign ministers of the member states to set the organisation’s direction and approve its programmes.
The ECO brings together ten member states across Central and South Asia and the Middle East. The Foreign Office said Pakistan, as the incoming chair, aims to promote greater regional cooperation in trade, transport, investment and sustainable development.
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